Poll: Bloomberg Down 9 Points

Michael Bloomberg is down 9 percentage points in a new Marist poll, the first one out since the mayor pushed to have term limits extended so he can seek a third term in office.

The poll, which sampled 696 city voters, had the mayor’s approval rating at 59 percent. It's not a bad number by any means, but it's the farthest he’s dropped since Marist’s August 2005 poll, which had him at 53 percent.

Despite that, in head-to-head match-ups against his announced rivals, Bloomberg would win re-election today.

Interestingly, 48 percent of New Yorkers hope the courts overturn the term-limits extension, since it was passed legislatively, and not by public referendum, which is how term limits were created in 1990s.